The effects of nutrition labeling on consumer food choice: A psychological experiment and computational model

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1331, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 174-185

  Helfer, Peter ^a   Shultz, Thomas R ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational modeling; Decision making; Nutrition labeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION FIELD THEORY; DECISION MAKING; FOOD; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NUTRITION; NUTRITION LABELING; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PORTION SIZE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPONSE TIME; SIMULATION; TASTE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALORIC INTAKE; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD LABELING; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION POLICY; OBESITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84923104013     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12461     Document Type: Article

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